The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2C. Bathurst ... [and 34 others], 1783 Comprises short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 English poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century. |
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Pàgina 41
... knowledge or confent , " and every one gathering new faults , it be " came at length a libel against me . " These copies as they gathered faults were apparent ly manufcript ; and he lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred ...
... knowledge or confent , " and every one gathering new faults , it be " came at length a libel against me . " These copies as they gathered faults were apparent ly manufcript ; and he lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred ...
Pàgina 58
... knowledge of poetical transactions . The fame year he published the Medal , of which the subject is a medal struck on lord Shaftesbury's escape from a profecution , by the ignoramus of a grand jury of Londoners , In both poems he ...
... knowledge of poetical transactions . The fame year he published the Medal , of which the subject is a medal struck on lord Shaftesbury's escape from a profecution , by the ignoramus of a grand jury of Londoners , In both poems he ...
Pàgina 67
... knowledge they contain , is difgraced by the garb in which it is exhi- bited . One great fource of pleasure is to call Dryden little Bayes . Ajax , who happens to be mentioned , is he that wore as many cowhides upon his fhield as would ...
... knowledge they contain , is difgraced by the garb in which it is exhi- bited . One great fource of pleasure is to call Dryden little Bayes . Ajax , who happens to be mentioned , is he that wore as many cowhides upon his fhield as would ...
Pàgina 83
... knowledge * than he was communicative of it ; but then his communication was by no means 66 pedantick , or impofed upon the conver- ** fation , but just fuch , and went so far as , ४८ by the natural turn of the conversation in which ...
... knowledge * than he was communicative of it ; but then his communication was by no means 66 pedantick , or impofed upon the conver- ** fation , but just fuch , and went so far as , ४८ by the natural turn of the conversation in which ...
Pàgina 102
... knowledge . which I have been able to collect concerning the private life and domeftick manners of à man , whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critick and à poet . DRYDEN DRYDEN may be properly confider- ed as ...
... knowledge . which I have been able to collect concerning the private life and domeftick manners of à man , whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critick and à poet . DRYDEN DRYDEN may be properly confider- ed as ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1857 |
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